MALIBU, Calif. -- The Pepperdine men's basketball team returns home and hopes to start a new winning streak when the Waves host UC Riverside on Wednesday. It's the first meeting between the two Southern California schools in 35 years. Pepperdine is looking to build upon its 2-0 home record. The Waves head out to Hawai'i this weekend, then have a week off for final exams.

WAVECASTS -- Live video broadcasts of home games and audio broadcasts of all road contests are free to all users at www.pepperdinesports.com. Veteran play-by-play man Al Epstein is behind the microphone (now in his 28th season, he heads into the upcoming game with a streak of 823 consecutive broadcasts). Also on the official website, fans can join an interactive live blog/chat using Cover It Live technology during most Pepperdine games, including UC Riverside.

SOCIAL MEDIA -- On Twitter, get the latest news on the men's basketball program at @PeppBasketball and follow our coaches and staff at @MartyWilson4, @CoachMarkAmaral, @Coach_BMoore and @jimpelman. You can also like the Pepperdine Men's Basketball and/or Pepperdine Athletics pages on Facebook.

TICKETS -- For the majority of home games, men's basketball single-game tickets cost $15 (reserved), $12 (adult general admission) or $5 (child general admission). Premium games (LMU, BYU and Gonzaga) have different pricing plans. Tickets can be purchased through the Pepperdine ticket office (866-WAVE-TIX) or via Ticketmaster.

UC RIVERSIDE -- Pepperdine is 3-1 all-time against UC Riverside, though the two schools haven't met since the 1977-78 season. The Waves are 2-0 in home games against the Highlanders, with only one of those (1976-77) taking place in Firestone Fieldhouse. UC Riverside was picked to finish 10th in the Big West Conference.

LAST GAME -- Pepperdine's bid for its first five-game winning streak since December 2004 was halted in a 67-63 overtime loss at Utah Valley on Saturday. The Waves outshot the Wolverines 48.2% to 41.0% and had a 43-27 rebounding edge but committed 17 turnovers to UVU's six. Utah Valley scored six of the first seven points in overtime and the Waves couldn't catch up. Lorne Jackson scored a team-high 17 points while Stacy Davis had his second straight double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds.

JACKSON -- Senior guard Lorne Jackson is back at full strength for his fifth and final season. He redshirted last year following ACL surgery, the second one that he's had to undergo during his time at Pepperdine. "LoJack" was named All-WCC honorable mention in 2010-11 after averaging 13.2 points per game (16.6 ppg in conference games, third-best in the league). He became the 37th player in Pepperdine history to reach the 1,000-point milestone on Dec. 1 at Utah Valley. Now with 1,008 points, he ranks 36th, and he's on a pace that would put him among the top 20 scorers in school history. Jackson is also close to breaking into Pepperdine's top 10 in steals (119, he needs 123) and three-pointers (117, he needs 120). He scored a career-high 28 points in a win against UC Irvine. Jackson is the only Wave to score in double-figures all seven games this season and he's averaging a team-best 17.0 points.

FRESHMAN FRONTCOURT --Stacy Davis leads all WCC freshmen in both scoring (12.6, 15th overall) and rebounding (8.0, fourth overall). He's the only freshman ranked in the top 20 in either scoring or rebounding. At 7.7 points per game, Jett Raines is also among the league's top freshmen. With a combined total of 20.3 points per game, Davis and Raines are the highest scoring freshmen duo in the WCC. The pair have been the starting frontcourt in all seven games.

RANDOM STATS -- Pepperdine has had a better shooting percentage than the opponent in six of seven games ... Pepperdine is unbeaten when allowing 66 points or less, but winless when allowing 67 points or more ... The Waves have committed more turnovers than the opponent in six of seven games.

WCC STATS -- (Through 12/3) The Waves are #2 in the WCC in field goal percentage defense (.397) and three-point field goal percentage defense (.314) ... Lorne Jackson is sixth in scoring (17.0), seventh in minutes played (33.3) and seventh in free throw percentage (.822) and tied for ninth in three-pointers made (1.7) ... Stacy Davis is 15th in scoring (12.6) and fourth in rebounding (8.0) ... Caleb Willis is fourth in assist/turnover ratio (2.8), sixth in assists (4.7) and sixth in minutes played (33.4) ... Moriba De Freitas is tied for fourth in blocked shots (1.3) and ninth in rebounding (6.3) ... Jordan Baker is 10th in minutes played (32.3) ... Nikolas Skouen is third in three-point percentage (.474).

INJURIES -- Only Malte Kramer (knee) is still sidelined. Jan Maehlen (hand) and Austin Mills (hand) each missed the first two games of the season. With Brendan Lane redshirting, the Waves had only nine players available for the first two games of the season (both losses).

SEASON NOTABLES -- Pepperdine won three straight games for the first time since January 2010, and four in a row for the first time since November 2007 ... The Waves have now beaten a Pac-12 team two consecutive seasons (at Arizona State last year, vs. Washington State this year) ... It hasn't happened often, but WSU was the first one of the old Pac-10 teams to visit Firestone Fieldhouse since December 2002 (Oregon) and the first that the Waves had beaten at home since November 1985 (WSU) ... In Firestone Fieldhouse, Pepperdine is now 3-3 all-time against the old Pac-10 schools, and 6-5 against the current list of Pac-12 schools ... Pepperdine has won road games in Texas two straight years (UTSA last season, Houston Baptist this season).

OVERTIME -- Pepperdine is 2-1 in overtime contests this season. The last time the Waves played three OT games was 2007-08, and the last time they played four was 1981-82. Pepperdine won back-to-back games in overtime against Washington State and Houston Baptist, which is one of only three known times that the Waves have played consecutive overtime games. Pepperdine has won both contests each time, though it hadn't happened since December 1977, and the first time was in February-March 1976. This is the first time that records show three overtime games among the first seven contests of the season.

ROSTER -- The Waves look much different this year. Only four letterwinners are back from last season, plus three redshirts. They're joined by seven newcomers to bring the roster total to 14. The class breakdown is three seniors, three juniors, four sophomores and four freshmen. Twelve players are on scholarship and two are walk-ons.

RETURNERS --Lorne Jackson's previous numbers aren't included, but returning players account for 36% of last year's points (621/1,719), 28% of the rebounds (267/943), 55% of the assists (197/358), 21% of the blocked shots (18/85), 55% of the steals (74/135) and 40% of the minutes played (2,320/5,825).

WILSON -- This is head coach Marty Wilson's second year as head coach at Pepperdine and his 16th season in Malibu. He has compiled an impressive record here as a student-athlete (1985-89), an assistant coach (1991-96, which included a brief stint as the interim head coach) and as the associate head coach for three seasons (2009-11) under Tom Asbury. He was then elevated to the position of head coach following Asbury's retirement after the 2010-11 season. Wilson was also an assistant at San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and Utah inbetween stints at Pepperdine and has been a Division I coach for 22 seasons. He ended his playing career #5 all-time in assists at Pepperdine with 342 (he's still #9). The team went to the NCAA Tournament twice and the NIT twice in Wilson's four seasons on the court. As a Pepperdine assistant, the team went to the NCAA Tournament three times and the NIT once.

ASSISTANTS -- Associate head coach Mark Amaral, assistant coach Bryant Moore and director of operations John Impelman all have returned this season. Amaral and Marty Wilson were assistants together at UC Santa Barbara for four seasons. Moore worked with the Cleveland Cavaliers for five seasons in a variety of roles, including player development coordinator, during the LeBron James era. Impelman, who filled in as an assistant coach for a period of time last season, is the great-grandson of UCLA coaching legend John Wooden. New to the staff is assistant coach Jason Hart, one of the all-time best players at Syracuse and a nine-year NBA veteran, who coached Taft High School to a Los Angeles City Section Division I title last year.

WCC -- This is the second of two years that the West Coast Conference will have nine teams. Brigham Young joined prior to 2011-12, and the roster will grow to 10 in 2013-14 when Pacific rejoins the conference. The coaches' preseason poll went in the following order: Gonzaga, BYU, Saint Mary's, Loyola Marymount, San Diego, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Portland and Pepperdine. Keep in mind, however, that the Waves have finished better than predicted in each of the previous four seasons (since Marty Wilson came back to the program).

RECRUITS -- The Waves inked three Southern California high school standouts to be their backcourt of the future during the November signing period. Jeremy Major (Pasadena, Calif./Maranatha HS), a 5-foot-10 point guard, averaged 25.8 points per game last season. Lamond Murray Jr. (Redondo Beach, Calif./Bishop Montgomery HS), a 6-foot-5 wing, averaged 20.2 points as a prep junior. Jeff Van Dyke (Carlsbad, Calif./La Costa Canyon HS), a 6-foot-3 shooting guard, made 92 three-pointers last season and helped La Costa Canyon to the state championship game. Major and Murray are teammates on the Double Pump 2013 Elite AAU squad, while Van Dyke plays for Gamepoint.

PEPPERDINE BASKETBALL -- This is the 75th season of Pepperdine men's basketball, and the 40th that the Waves have called Firestone Fieldhouse home. The Waves began the campaign with an all-time record of 1,140-974 (.539). Pepperdine has been to the NCAA Tournament 13 times (last in 2002) and has won 12 West Coast Conference regular-season titles (last in 2002) and three WCC Tournament crowns (last in 1994). Did you know that William "Bird" Averitt led the nation in scoring in 1972-73 with 33.9 points per game?

2013/2015 NCAA WEST REGIONALS -- Pepperdine University is the host institution for both the 2013 and 2015 West Regionals of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. The Waves partnered with AEG/Staples Center and the LA Sports & Entertainment Commission to bring NCAA postseason basketball to Los Angeles for the first time since 1994.

WAVES IN THE PROS -- Yakhouba Diawara, a former NBA veteran who now plays in Italy, competed in the 2012 Olympics for France. Mychel Thompson is the most recent Wave in the NBA, appearing in five games for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2011-12 after making the squad as an undrafted free agent. He was in the New York Knicks' preseason camp this year but after being waived he's returned to the Erie BayHawks of the NBA D-League. Pepperdine had a streak of 34 consecutive seasons with at least one Pepperdine alum on an NBA roster, which began in 1976-77 after the ABA/NBA merger and ended in 2010-11. Seventeen former Pepperdine players have seen action in the NBA, a list that includes notables such as Dennis Johnson (a 2010 Naismith Hall of Fame inductee, the 1979 NBA Finals MVP and a three-time NBA champion) and Doug Christie (a 15-year NBA veteran who was a mainstay on the All-Defensive Team).

ABOUT PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY -- Pepperdine boasts a one-of-a-kind athletic department with unprecedented success for a school of its size. The Waves have won NCAA Division I championships in five different men's sports -- one of just 16 schools to have accomplished this feat -- and nine overall. Of this elite group, Pepperdine has the smallest enrollment and is the only school not associated with a BCS conference. The Waves earned the Division I-AAA All-Sports Trophy, an award based on postseason success that's given to the top non-football D-I school, for the third time in 2011-12. Located in scenic Malibu, Calif., the university overlooks the Pacific Ocean and its campus and athletic facilities are regularly voted among the nation's most beautiful. Pepperdine, which is affiliated with the Church of Christ, ranks #54 overall on U.S. News and World Report's list of America's best colleges.